January 2011
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listening to "Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros... →
thanks to @sarahsampsel my friday is complete. cc @melissabell
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“By showcasing the most witty, joyful, bullet-pointed versions of people’s...”
– Is Facebook making us sad? - By Libby Copeland - Slate Magazine
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Russia: Domodedovo Bombings Expose Unbalance... →
Increasingly, mainstream media and “official” government channels criticized for not making use of social media during emergencies to disseminate substantive, credible information.
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Word.
Lots of good reading today. But logging off and trying to read only words printed on actual paper for rest of today. We’ll see what happens…
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When will producers figure out D.C. and reality TV... →
REALITY TV in Washington has always been something of an oxymoron. The nation’s capital should be a reality-show casting director’s playground: overwhelming power, operatic personalities, nuclear codes floating around town in a black briefcase. And who wouldn’t love to watch the East Wing ladies scramble to throw together a state dinner? There’s just one problem: Someone in power, close to power...
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“By 2013, the FAA expects to have formulated new rules that would allow police...”
– Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate via @washingtonpost
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Vincent van Gogh - @Qwiki →
Can’t even figure out what to call @Qwiki. Visual topics? Startup focuses on delivering information via “storytelling instead of search.” // Vincent van Gogh - Qwiki
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“In the fall, students at the appropriately named Webb School, a private school...”
– But apparently they’ll be blocking Facebook and Twitter. // Somewhere Apple Execs Are Smiling: iPads Are Now Mandatory at This Private School | Fast Company
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Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People... →
Now, some company called VS Technologies is suing Twitter, alleging that it infringes on a patent of theirs, entitled “Method and system for creating an interactive virtual community of famous people”. For real? For real. In the complaint, filed earlier this week (and embedded below), VS Technologies alleges that Twitter has purposefully infringed the above-mentioned patent, US patent no....
Let me say this about that
It occurred to me the other day that my job requires to be to be utterly connected (obvious) - as in, accounts for this and that and passwords galore and constant contact with co-workers (and friends) on various social networks. We live and work to be social, to be connected, to have instant access to one another.
And then I happen upon someone from the “outside,” whom I happen to very curious...
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Military Struggles to Harness a Flood of Data -... →
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“The cry has gone out: Why didn’t anyone - family, neighbors, teachers,...”
– Steve Luxenberg » The mental-health ‘system’ that brought us the Tucson tragedy
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See Something? Cite Something. →
drewvigal:
onsider this reference material for the next time you find an artist’s work on a website without attribution to all the hard work someone put in. Next time you see someone posting something that isn’t theirs on Tumblr or Flickr or DeviantArt or wherever else, let them know what you really think. That they are killing the internet. And of course, every time you do that, the Internet...
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Austin, Tex., keeping it weird →
Joe Yonan writes up his most recent trip to Austin. Miss it all the time. Inspired me to see if Donn’s Depot still exists (yep, that’d be a bar in a railcar). It does. :)
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“Add this finding to your hashtag playbook: getting a great hashtag in front of...”
– How a Twitter Meme Takes Off - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
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listening to "Vampire Weekend - Cousins (Live BBC... →
it’s a mad, crazy, good day at the wapo. keeping the beat with my vampire boys.
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“Our Dollars for Docs news application lets readers search pharmaceutical company...”
– Scraping for Journalism: A Guide for Collecting Data - ProPublica // love it when journos take the time to do explainers and how-to guides. thank you @propublica!